Eris vs. Aemulatio

Cynthia Damon, Ph.D. (1990), Stanford University, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her publications are a critical edition of Caesar’s Civil War and an English translation of Tacitus’ Annals. Christoph Pieper, Ph.D. (2008), Bonn University, is University Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. Among his publications are a monograph on the 15th century-poet Cristoforo Landino and a volume on the value of antiquity in antiquity (in the Penn Leiden Colloquia-series).

• 1 General IntroductionCynthia Damon and Christoph PieperPart 1 Eris Reimagined2 Hesiodic Eris and the MarketRuth ScodelPart 2 Ambivalence, Critique, Resistance3 Agonistic Excess and Its Ritual Resolution in Hero Cult: the Funeral Games in Iliad 23 as a mise en abymeAnton Bierl4 Certare alterno carmine: the Rise and Fall of Bucolic CompetitionYelena Baraz5 Stasis, Competition, and the ‘Noble Lie’: Metic Mettle in Plato’s RepublicGeoffrey W. Bakewell6 Competition and Innovation in Aristotle, Politics 2Inger N.I. Kuin7 Aristotle’s Poetics and skenikoi agonesOliver Taplin8 Paradoxes and Anxieties of Competition in Hippocratic MedicineRalph M. RosenPart 3 Multivalence, Displacement, Innovation9 Sleights of Hand: Epigraphic Capping and the Visual Enactment of Eris in Early Greek EpigramsDeborah Steiner10 Roman Architects and the Struggle for Fame in an Unequal SocietyChristopher Siwicki11 Political Competition and Economic Change in Mid-Republican RomeSeth Bernard12 Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia AemiliaLewis Webb13 The Poetics of Strife and Competition in Hesiod and OvidCharles T. Ham14 Demosthenes versus Cicero: Intercultural Competition in Ancient Literary CriticismCasper C. de Jonge15 Competition and Competitiveness in Pollux’s OnomasticonAlexei V. ZadorojnyiIndex

''The obvious point of reference for this collection, as its editors recognise, is Fisher and van Wees’ volume (Swansea, 2011) and some of the new chapters interact closely with their predecessors. The recent volume is considerably more literary and the exploration of the layers of competition hidden in a given text, managed without losing sight of historical context, is a significant strength of many chapters and the book as a whole. Overall this is a welcome and valuable contribution to the study of Greek and Roman rivalry that offers meaningful competition for existing and future scholarship.'' Joe Whitchurch, in Latomus 79: 511-514 (2002)